E-cadherin-integrin crosstalk in cancer invasion and metastasis

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 393-401

  Canel, Marta ^a   Serrels, Alan ^a   Frame, Margaret C ^a   Brunton, Valerie G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; E cadherin; Integrins; Invasion

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; FOCAL ADHESION KINASE; INTEGRIN; INTEGRIN LINKED KINASE; PROTEIN P120; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; UVOMORULIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CELL ADHESION; CELL CONTACT; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCYTOSIS; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; FOCAL ADHESION; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; METASTASIS; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHOTOACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC MUTATION; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; HUMANS; INTEGRINS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84876089304     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.100115     Document Type: Note

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